Final Season Of ‘Lost’ Promises To Make Fans More Annoying Than Ever

When my sister, Caitlin, was in town in early January, we went to the New York Transit Museum with her boyfriend, Nolan.  (The museum itself is pretty interesting, but if you go too close to closing be careful not to get suckered into wasting all your time on the Triborough Bridge exhibit.  It is surprisingly thorough…and just not worth it.) On our way out, I recorded the sound of a few old turnstyles, which made some great mechanical ratcheting noises.

“What are you going to use that for?” Nolan asked.

I didn’t know at the time, but it ended up being perfect for this mock Lost commercial.  See if you can pick it out in the mix.

I also made the ABC logo “swoosh” from scratch by running a pitch-shifted gong through an envelope filter along with some white noise.  I think sounds pretty close to the real thing…

I was searching for old videos to better imitate the sound of a vintage broadcast, and accidentally stumbled upon this.

It’s a Sonovox, which is sort of a proto-vocoding device–though it’s actually closer in principle to the “talkbox” effect made famous by Peter Frampton’s “Do You Feel Like We Do.” The music from the performance would be piped into small speakers, which the performer holds up to his throat–in effect replacing his vocal chords. He mouths the words, and the sounds take shaped based on the natural formants produced by his mouth and throat.

I just love how anachronistic is it to hear this Daft Punk-esque effect in the context of a 1940s big band.

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Here’s the latest video I’ve worked on for the Onion News Network.

Another podcast I worked on for The Newark Museum via Pimzlo Media.

Here’s a podcast I worked on a few months ago for The Newark Museum via Pimzlo Media. If you follow this blog you might remember I tried using a video-embedding plug-in to stream this video from my own site, but it didn’t work very well.  Now that it’s up on YouTube, and because I’m working on a new podcast for Newark at the moment, I thought I’d go back and re-post some of my previous work with them. I’ll post another one later in the week.